Another challenger for Dunedin South
Newstalk ZB reports that failed Dunedin Mayoral candidate Olivier Lequeux has put his name forward to challenge the Labour selection in Dunedin South. […]
Crime: out of control?
John Key made a speech to the Police Association today proposing a whole raft of new police powers, ranging from banning gangs to […]
Political correctness gone Möbius
In the wildly twisty turny inverted think of Rodney Hide it is both possible to say all violence is wrong and that smacking […]
TV One News – oh shame you pakeha palangi
Following a perfectly sensible Cabinet reshuffle story tonight, TV One News must have had this weird rush to the head because they sent […]
Labour recycling Ministers, says National
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Barnett not standing in Chch Central
Latest reports suggest that Tim Barnett will not be standing for Christchurch Central in next year’s election but may still stand on Labour’s […]
Gaybourhood Halloween party cancelled
From the NY Times: This Halloween, the Glindas, gladiators and harem boys of the Castro — along with untold numbers who plan to […]
Reshuffle
Three new cabinet ministers (Maharey’s retiring, Burton’s returned to the backbench, and Benson-Pope’s old place was still open): Steve Chadwick becomes Minister of […]
Labour: who’s gonna get it?
Coming into an election when work rights is going to be a major issue, we’ve heard Ruth Dyson will be relinquishing her labour […]
Herald Digipoll
Today’s Herald Digipoll is not good news for Labour, coming off the back of last week’s positive Roy Morgan poll which showed a […]
Pryde of the South
Interesting to see EPMU President Don Pryde has thrown his hat in the ring for the Dunedin South seat and has the full […]
“Ethical Facebook” for businesses
Actics.com is an online neworking site for “ethical” businesses. Businesses that sign up choose to nominate themselves as expressing various corporate values and […]
Key losing his mojo
Pol science lecturer and commentator Jon Johansson has given a lucid and scholarly account of the inexorable decline of John Key and National’s […]
UK cannabis reclassification causes decline in use
The Guardian reports that: Cannabis use among young people has fallen significantly since its controversial reclassification in 2004, according to the latest British […]
National still to scrap GP fee cap
Peter Bradshaw, at the Guardian, reviews Michael Moore’s movie Sicko: Last week in this paper, Seumas Milne reported on the boa-constrictor-sized parasites of […]
Roy Morgan
There’s a new Roy Morgan out today. It covers the date range 1-14 October 2007. Gary Morgan said of the result: As was […]
Turia weighs in
So now Tariana is calling for a police probe into the Mallard/Henare incident. Mallard came clean yesteday about his role in the incident […]
The Superest
You’ve probably heard of the battle raging accross the ditch. You’ve probably even heard of the one in the Parliamentary lobby. In California […]
Growing poverty across the Tasman
The Australian Council of Social Services has highlighted an update on the numbers living in poverty. New figures released by Australia Fair show […]
Wish we’d had the Silver Bodgie in 1984
Bob Hawke still tells it like it is; watch his devastating rebuttal of the Liberals’ attempts to demonise unions here. He points out […]
Economic ‘Billiteracy’ infects National Party
The Dom yesterday ran a front page story by Tracy Watkins which used National Party figures aimed at showing that “Joanna Average” isn’t […]
Katine
The Guardian has launched a three year aid project with the objective of ‘together, lifting one village out of the middle ages’. The […]
What have the unions ever done for us?
(Hat tip: Robert Owen – via comments)
Union bogey blunder backfires
Liberal Party advertising in the Australian election looks desperate, and judging by the polls is ineffective. Witness this effort, using the old demon-union-official […]
Debate allegedly turns physical
The Press reports that Trevor Mallard allegedly slapped or hit Tau Henare after the National MP made references to Mallard’s personal life in […]
Up-Skilling Skilling
The NZ Institute needs to look a bit more closely before leaping into print. The strangest thing about its exhortation that NZ should […]
Elephants ‘do a Blumsky’
The Guardian reports that “Six Asiatic wild elephants were electrocuted as they went berserk after drinking rice beer in India’s remote north-east”. No […]
National’s challenge
With the British conservatives looking strong (and Labour embarassed by the costs of an election that never was) and the fresh new blood […]
Outage
Some server issues outside our control caused a bit of an outage this afternoon. We’re up and running again now though, as you […]
Lights out San Francisco
Lights Out San Francisco is a citywide energy conservation event next scheduled for March 29, 2008. On this night, they invite the entire […]
NZ Institute turns up the heat
The New Zealand Institute has come out imploring us to be a “fast follower” rather than a leader in the race to reduce […]
Mashup
We love remixes (well all except those German house ones of classic 80’s pop). Imagine our delight when we found this in out […]
YouTube campaigning
Mark Torley filed this piece on “YouTube campaigning” for One News last night.
FreeRice
FreeRice is a vocabulary game. For each word you correctly identify, they’ll donate 10 grains of rice through the United Nations to help […]
New hybrid Crown limos announced
In an effort to play an even larger part in the fight against global warming the New Zealand government today announced the purchase […]
Blind ideology
Tempting to leave this one to Kiwiblogblog but perhaps they need a break… DPF writes this morning: As I have said many times, […]